- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:55:45 +0100
- To: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "Marc Silbey" <marcsil@windows.microsoft.com>, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
- Cc: "Cullen Sauls" <cullens@microsoft.com>, "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@uiuc.edu>, "Aaron M Leventhal" <aleventh@us.ibm.com>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <chaals@opera.com>, "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@comcast.net>, "www-archive@w3.org" <www-archive@w3.org>, "Richard Schwerdtfeger" <schwer@us.ibm.com>
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:47:34 +0100, Chris Wilson
<Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Simon Pieters [mailto:simonp@opera.com] wrote:
>> I understand that IE works this way internally, but this behavior --
>> that
>> all attributes are reflected by DOM attributes and that any DOM
>> attributes
>> (or JS properties) on elements also turn into real attributes -- is not
>> backed up by any DOM spec, and Opera, Safari and Firefox don't do this.
>> In
>> those browsers, unknown attributes are only accessible with
>> getAttribute(), and saying elm.foobar = 'x' just creates a JS property
>> "foobar" without adding/changing the "foobar" attribute on the element.
>
> IIRC, this does not necessarily happen with unknown attributes - only
> with known attributes. If it's a known attribute, it gets reflected
> into the DOM with camelCasing.
The hyphenation/camelCasing part seems to be special-cased. Unknown
attributes with dashes in them are still reflected as JS properties,
available using ['foo-bar'] syntax, and .fooBar turns into fooBar=''.
> If it's an unknown/unrecognized attribute, it is only accessible via
> getAttribute().
This doesn't seem to be the case in IE8, AFAICT:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0D%0A%3Cbody%20foo%3Dx%3E%3Cpre%3E%0D%0A%3Cscript%3E%0D%0Adocument.body.bar%3D'y'%3B%0D%0Adocument.writeln(document.body.getAttribute('bar')%20%3F%20'FAIL%3A%20.bar%20turned%20into%20real%20attribute'%20%3A%20'PASS')%3B%0D%0Adocument.writeln(document.body.foo%20%3F%20'FAIL%3A%20%26lt%3Bbody%20foo%3Dx%3E%20turned%20into%20a%20JS%20property'%20%3A%20'PASS')%3B%0D%0A%3C%2Fscript%3E
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Saturday, 15 March 2008 13:57:33 UTC